4 Hours
400 Kilometres
4 Months
This project reflects on the 400-kilometre route between Jeddah and Al-Madinah in Saudi Arabia as both a physical path and a living archive, mapped through memory and generational experiences.
This route is central to families from the Hijaz region, who often take trips to Al-Madinah whenever their heart yearns for it.
It carries deep religious and cultural significance and traces the path of Al-Hijrah; a foundational event that marks the start of the Islamic calendar.
The project explores the road’s evolution over time and its place in the collective memory of the Hijazi community. Drawing on field interviews, sound, and visual fragments, it documents the transformation of the journey over the decades and the shared emotional landscapes attached to it.
By placing personal experiences in conversation with historical routes and sites, the work considers how bodies move through space, how land holds memory, and how the road becomes a space in-between; between cities, generations, and moments in time.
The project engages in a reciprocal process; gathering from these families and giving back to them, using memory as both method and medium.
From, and to, families of Al-Hijaz.